On Drawing Close, Attuning, the father of guitar improvisation, Derek Bailey, lands in Haino World. He trades many plinks and plonks and juts and jolts with Haino as the two lurch forward and backward, circling in time—occasionally coalescing into a thick maelstrom of frenetic pick and strum fury. This is yet another good one, and—like the Fushitsusha CDs also on Tokuma–it’s astonishing to think that music this creative, untamed and deeply felt was released on a major label, no matter which continent.

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